On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 15:42, Gabriel Eirea <gei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, interesting thread. > >> FYI: One of our largest deployments and two other smaller deployments have >> received approval to ship Adobe Flash in their builds. > > In Uruguay, Ceibal started shipping Adobe Flash with their official > build at the beginning of 2009. > > My personal observation is that this came from a high demand on two > fronts: kids and teachers complaining about youtube and online games > on one side, and local companies used to develop web pages and such > that wanted to create content but only had resources to do it in flash > and complained about gnash being too restrictive on the other side. > > As far as I can see, the results are mixed. Playing youtube videos and > other online music/video players is a big hit. However, the flash > player performance in the XO is very bad,
An older release of Flash used to be good enough for youtube: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5408 Apparently, they removed Xv support at some point. Regards, Tomeu > kids complain that they > can't play most of the games because characters move very slowly, etc. > Local companies didn't add much to the content pool and all they can > do in terms of business plan is get some government agency give them > money for delivering a message. You can see some examples in: > > http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=216&Itemid=75 > > My suggestion would be to use whatever contacts you may have at Adobe > to communicate that: > > 1) they have to improve the player's performance on the XO > 2) they have to make developers tools available for the XO > 3) they have to develop a sugar wrapper to run swf files as activities > > and if they do that, flash may be a viable alternative for > deployments. Otherwise it would never be. > > All this, IMHO. > > Regards, > > Gabriel > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel